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Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

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Former First Lady of the United States, political activist, and author. Eleanor Roosevelt is renowned for her exceptional social activism and contributions to civil rights. She served as the First Lady during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and continued to be actively involved in political and social affairs after his death. more

“...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”

Two Different Soul Earth Faces Reading Given Born Different Things Day To Day Observing Fingerprints Given Life

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”

Moments Eternity Bereavement

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”

Hours Eternity Bereavement

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.”

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

“When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.”

World Sound Saws Doors Sky Fields Arms Higher West Clouds Spread March Thunder Mist Sinking Drifting Janie

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.”

Humans Play Next Century Flow Rivers Affair Forgotten Next Day

Author:Milan Kundera

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